Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd play a couple of quiet rounds and then when it got hectic and everyone else wanted to be playing , he 'd stay away from the course and just hit a few balls in practice . |
| 2 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
| 3 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 4 | He ended his hour-long presentation with the words , ‘ We are on our way toward making the division one of the best goddamned outfits in overseas operations , and I just want to be given the chance to prove that the plan which I have outlined to you today is the right one for the British operation , for Europe and for the Corporation . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a life-long ambition of mine to be a chauffeur and I just want to be given a chance . ’ |
| 6 | With the swimming cap and goggles on , I could hardly recognize myself , certainly not from a distance , and I also intended to be under water for most of the time . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 8 | I 'm really sorry David and I both had to be away . |
| 9 | ‘ I first made the Cup team in 1981 and I desperately want to be in next year 's . ’ |
| 10 | And I still want to be that person ; I want to be happy ; I want to look good ; I want to command the situation I 'm in . |
| 11 | and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act |
| 12 | Mr Taylor will know the position and I still expect to be named in the squad on Tuesday . |
| 13 | And I then want to be able to collect information on sources of pollution around their sites , if they notice particularly busy roads , things like that . |
| 14 | For the record , Rutter and I now appear to be essentially in agreement on the lead-in-petrol hazard , and in accepting that the effects of lead on children 's intelligence is real . |
| 15 | I suppose it amuses me and I never needed to be amused before , not when he was here to do it . |
| 16 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 17 | I 've been very poor , I 've cleaned toilets for Mecca , I 've slept on Euston station , and I never want to be like that again . |
| 18 | ‘ They are growing up missing half their heritage , and I really began to be concerned when they said fish and chips were their favourite food . |
| 19 | ‘ But I came late into the first-class game , I 'm 28 now and I really want to be in the big time before I end my career . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I started writing scripts when I was fifteen , ’ he said , ‘ and I always wanted to be a serious writer . |
| 21 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 22 | There are all the pleasurable things that the ex-smoker has learned to associate with smoking , and which now have to be faced alone . |
| 23 | ‘ CHRIST ! ’ said Lucy hurtling to her feet , stalking the floor like Mildred Pierce , ‘ all your talent and you just want to be a bloody lover ! |
| 24 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 25 | You want the weight to stay off and you also want to be able to eat a reasonable amount of food after the diet without putting on weight . |
| 26 | And I was going to consult you , but really Algeria is a long way away , and you never seem to be in Paris … so , yes , I sold some rather boring stock that was as safe as Fort Knox and about as immobile , and invested in de Chavigny . |
| 27 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
| 28 | It was expected that Noriega 's appeal would question the legal basis for trying a foreign head of state taken into custody during a US military invasion and who now claimed to be a prisoner of war . |
| 29 | like , she 's coloured right , but she 's a bit portly and she just smells to be quite honest ! |
| 30 | She know that and she just seems to be like a vicious circle all the time , I mean she does n't , I mean just getting deeper , deeper into debt . |